Salman Alchasurowitsch Hasimikow

Salman Chassimikov medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
World Championship
gold	1979 San Diego	Super heavy
gold	1981 Toledo (Ohio)	Super heavy
gold	1982 Edmonton	Super heavy
gold	1983 Kiev	Super heavy
European Championship
silver	1980 Prievidza	Super heavy
gold	1981 Łódź	Super heavy
silver	1984 Jönköping	Super heavy
Junior World Championship
gold	1970 Huskvaran	up to 87 kg
gold	1971 Tokyo	up to 87 kg
gold	1973 Miami	Heavy

Salman Alchasurowitsch Chassimikow ( Russian Хасимиков, Салман Алхазурович ; born April 5, 1953 in the Kazakh SSR ) is a former Soviet wrestler of Chechen descent.

Career

Amateur career

Salman Chassimikov comes from Grozny in Chechnya . He started wrestling there at the age of 12 and was one of the best freestyle wrestlers in his respective age group in the Soviet Union as a teenager . At the age of 18 he started at the European Junior Championships in Huskvarna, Sweden , where he won the title in the class up to 87 kg body weight. In the class over 87 kg body weight, Soslan Andiew from the Soviet Union won, who was Salman's toughest opponent in the senior class. First Salman won the world championship in the juniors in 1971 and 1973, again in the class up to 87 kg in 1971 and in the heavyweight division in 1973.

After that, Salman went into the army and was stationed in Moscow . His coach there was Tomas Barba, to whom he largely owes his continued positive development. He grew up to a height of 1.80 meters to a fully grown super heavyweight of 120 kg body weight. He was rather small for the super heavyweight, but extremely strong.

Despite Salman's great success in the junior division, it was not until 1979 that he was able to assert himself in the senior class in the Soviet Union. Soslan Andiew , Boris Bigajew and Wladimir Parschukow prevented his assignments at international championships due to better placements at the Soviet championships. In 1979 Salman made his international senior debut at the European Championships in Budapest . With three superior victories, he became European super heavyweight champion there. In the same year he was also world champion in San Diego ahead of Roland Gehrke from the GDR , who had also become vice European champion.

In 1980 there was a surprising defeat for Salman at the European Championships in Prievidza against Peter Ivanov from Bulgaria . Shortly before the end, the judges gave him the third warning for passivity, after they had already given both wrestlers two warnings. With this third warning Salman lost the fight and the European title went to Ivanov. But things got worse for Salman, because shortly before the Olympic Games in Moscow, where he was supposed to start, he broke his leg and had to watch in Moscow.

After his recovery, 1981 was an extremely successful year for him. He was first European champion in Łódź in spring and world champion in Skoplje in autumn . In none of these championships he came even remotely in danger of losing a fight. He was to be considered.

In 1982 and 1983 he only started at the World Championships. He won his third and fourth world championship titles. In Edmonton (1982) and in Kiev (1983) he was safe again, no matter how hard his toughest opponents Adam Sandurski from Poland , Bruce Baumgartner from the USA and Andreas Schröder from the GDR struggled against him.

In the Olympic year 1984 Salman could not achieve the successes he wanted, as he did four years ago. First of all, at the European Championships in Jönköping , he and his final opponent Adam Sandurski received the harsh verdict of the referees: both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive. Both wrestlers were placed in 2nd place and no European championship title was awarded. Salman's dream of the 1984 Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles was shattered by the Olympic boycott of the socialist states.

Then Salman Chassimikow ended his wrestling career.

Profile career

1989/90 entered Salman Chassimikow for the Japanese wrestling promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he on 25 May and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Big Van Vader could win.

International success (amateur career)

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1970	1.	Junior European Championship in Huskvarna	up to 87 kg	before Georgi Stoitchew, Bulgaria and Ismail Ömer Zuzan, Turkey
1971	1.	Junior World Championships in Tokyo	up to 87 kg	ahead of Stojan Radew, Bulgaria and Toni Sidoli, USA
1973	1.	Junior World Championship in Miami	Heavy	before Raitschew, Bulgaria and Roland Gehrke , GDR
1975	1.	Intern. Tournament in Tbilisi	Heavy	before Moseschvili, Chutaba, Ikayev and Aslanbek Bisultanov , all of them Soviet Union
1975	1.	Pre-Olympic tournament in Montreal	Super heavy	before Heinz Eichelbaum , FRG , Harry Geris and Robert Gibbons, bde. Canada
1975	1.	"Werner Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Heavy	before Reza Shouktesari, Iran , Peter Drozda, Poland and Peter Albert, GDR
1977	1.	Łódź Grand Prix	Super heavy	before József Balla , Hungary and Kosmowski, Poland
1977	1.	"Georgian Cup" in Tbilisi	Super heavy	before Chutaba, USSR, Snobiladze, USSR, Roland Gehrke and Aslanbek Bisultanow , USSR
1978	1.	Intern. Tournament in Bucharest	Super heavy	before József Balla and Kálman, both Hungarians
1979	1.	EM in Bucharest	Super heavy	in front of Roland Gehrke, Adam Sandurski , Poland , Janko Andrei, Romania , József Balla, and Peter Iwanow , Bulgaria
1979	1.	World Cup in San Diego	Super heavy	before Roland Gehrke, Janko Andrei, John Achterwood, Canada , Weselin Atanassow, Bulgaria and Henryk Tomanek, Poland
1980	2.	EM in Prievidza	Super heavy	behind Peter Iwanow and in front of Adam Sandurski, József Balla, Janko Andrei and Roland Gehrke
1981	1.	EM in Łódź	Super heavy	before József Balla, Adam Sandurski, Slawko Tscherwenkow, Bulgaria and Michael Deutsch, GDR
1981	1.	World Cup in Skopje	Super heavy	before Reza Shouktesari, Iran , Adam Sandurski, Peter Iwanow, Harold Smith, USA and József Balla
1981	1.	World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA	Super heavy	in front of Bruce Baumgartner , USA and Wyatt Wishart, Canada
1982	1.	World Cup in Edmonton	Super heavy	before Adam Sandurski, Andreas Schröder , DDR, Reza Shouktesari, József Balla and Peter Iwanow
1983	1.	World Cup in Kiev	Super heavy	before Adam Sandurski, Bruce Baumgartner, Peter Iwanow, Robert Molle , Canada and Andreas Schröder
1984	2.	EM in Jönköping	Super heavy	together with Adam Sandurski and in front of Andreas Schröder, Tomas Johansson , Sweden and Nikola Slatew , Bulgaria

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1978	3.	Super heavy	behind Soslan Andijew and Boris Bigajew
1979	1.	Super heavy	before Vladimir Parshukov and Soslan Andiev
1980	2.	Super heavy	behind Soslan Andijew, in front of Boris Bigajew
1981	1.	Super heavy	before Nikolai Skripkin and Boris Bigajew
1982	1.	Super heavy	before Boris Bigajew and Jamal Tarijenadze
1983	1.	Super heavy	before Oleg Dsamlajew and Jamal Tarijenadze

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Heavy weight, back then up to 100, super heavy weight, up to 130 kg body weight

Profile career

• 1989, 1 × IWGP Heavyweight Champion

literature

• 2) Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers 05/79, 09/79, 05/80, 05/81, 10/81, 05/06/82, 09/82, 10/83 and 05/84

Web links

• Profile of Salman Chassimikow at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Fight of Salman Chassimikov against Dr. Death Steve Williams on October 2, 1990 in Tokyo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet Wrestling Database (English)
2. ↑ Article on the 50th anniversary at sovsport.ru (Russian)